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QUICK FACTS Name: Elamite helmet with divine figures What it is: A bronze helmet with gold decorations Where it is from: Southwestern Iran When it
Easily identified by the spectacular band of dark dust that partially obscures its bright core, Messier 64, or the Black Eye Galaxy, is characterized by
The two major earthquakes that struck Venezuela just 39 seconds apart on June 24 had slightly different epicenters in north-central Venezuela. The first (M7.2) struck
Quick facts What it is: Centaurus A galaxy (NGC 5128) Where it is: 11 million light-years away, in the constellation Centaurus When it was shared:
On April 6, the four crewmembers of NASA’s Artemis II mission swooped around the far side of the moon in their Orion spacecraft, disappearing from
Consider the following scenario. Suzy is 63, recently retired, and trying to decide when to start receiving Social Security and how to manage her retirement
Archaeologists have discovered 18 ancient tombs in an Egyptian town along the Mediterranean Sea. The tombs — which were unearthed in Marina el-Alamein (also spelled
Albert Einstein gave us the theory of relativity , explained the photoelectric effect and predicted the existence of gravitational waves . He revolutionized our understanding
On a Sunday afternoon in April, the main minibus terminal in Sukabumi, Indonesia, looked sleepy from the outside. But in an open space round the
Researchers tested soccer balls aboard the International Space Station to study how internal mass affects motion and stability in microgravity.
Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for example, stores approximately 123 billion
In most areas of archaeology, excavators painstakingly dig layer by layer to reveal not just buried artifacts but also charred seeds, broken bones and microscopic
Most archaeologists spend time digging in the dirt or piecing together broken artifacts or bones in the lab, attempting to make sense of the past
This week’s science news was filled with big discoveries from the world of the small, led by a physicist’s creation of a mini-universe, which was
